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Oilers Edged 4-3 by Mavericks in Shootout

January 6, 2016 - ECHL (ECHL)
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Tulsa, OK-- Although the Oilers were the team to last beat Missouri and their 14-game winning streak, they would not destroy the Maverick's eighth on a Tuesday night at the BOK Center. Goaltender Matt Grogan was put to the test in his debut as an Oiler facing 26 shots, overtime and a shootout. During their fifth rendezvous of the season, the one-goal game tradition would continue with Missouri but the Oilers would lose 4-3 in their first home game of 2016. Adam Pleskach claimed the first star title with two goals as Christophe Lalancette contributed two assists.

Tulsa was blanked in the first period when the Maverick's took a 2-0 lead. Missouri's Kane Lafranchise slapped one from the point and made its way in for the first goal of the night. The 4:28 mark provided another Mav's goal from the right circle, over Gorgan's glove by Sebastien Sylvestre from Tanner Fritz and David de Kastrozza.

Three high-sticking penalties by Pleskach, all killed off by Tulsa's defense, would be a rare addition of minutes to the forward who, prior to the six minutes in one period, only had 16 PIMs in 28 games. The Oilers would only take five shots in frame one.

Pleskach would show a difference performance in the second period. His first chance would come from a blue line shot by Connor Kucera that he deflected in to put his team on the board. Three minutes later rookie forward Phil Brewer would tally his seventh of the season on a power play rebound at 9:59.

With the score knotted up at two, Missouri's Rocco Carzo supplied Jesse Root, who recently returned to his team after seven games with the American Hockey League's Bridgeport Sound Tigers, with a breakaway goal.

Second period scoring didn't stop there. Oilers' point leader Pleskach, struck again. Lalancette would receive his second assist of the night on Pleskach's second goal. The frame would end in a 3-3 tie and the Oilers outshooting the Mavericks 20-6, the most shots in a single period for Tulsa this season.

A third period of hockey would not decide the outcome, nor would 3-on-3 overtime.

In Tulsa's fifth shootout of the season, each Oilers skater (Phil Brewer, Brandon Wong and Dennis Brown) was denied by Maverick's netminder Josh Robinson. Andrew Courtney scored the game-winning goal on Grogan and left the Oilers with only one point, Courtney's team with two.

Now 14-11-2-2 on the season, the Oilers will head to Wichita, Kansas this Friday night to visit the Thunder for another divisional matchup. Back at the BOK Center on Saturday, Tulsa will host Wichita as they sport retro jerseys on the ice.

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